Dork Reports

One day, for all you readers out there (me, essentially), I will go back in time and magically whip up descriptions of what I’ve been up to, what I’ve been seeing, and what I’ve been eating. Because I know all those things are very interesting. I guess the quick and dirty update is:

• I’m in Santiago where I’ve been for the last three weeks, give or take the couple days I went to Valparaiso and Viña Del Mar.
• I’ve completed two weeks of intensive Spanish classes and have come out of that experience able to read and understand better, but still have the conversation skills of a kid between baby and toddler stages.
• I am, by circumstances beyond my control, now single and not so ready to mingle.
• Due to a general malaise concerning traveling (which I can now, in retrospect, partly attribute to my anti-malarial tablets), the inability to get over my hesitance of going to Peru during their wet season, and the realization that something like Machu Picchu would be an experience better off shared with others, I have decided to cut my trip short three weeks and head on home.
• I’m naively hoping going home early will make a difference in my life moving forward. If not, then at least I’ll have time to finally slowly upload photos and blog about them before people realize I’m back.
• On Saturday I will be leaving Santiago for the north of Chile, where I will roam the deserts and oases of San Pedro de Atacama and head east on a jeep tour of Bolivia’s southern altiplano. This all sounds like mumbo jumbo to me, even, as I’ve done no planning and wouldn’t even be at this stage of having an airline ticket if it weren’t for good ol’ Magdalena.
• I am really not cut out for hot weather, traveling in hot weather, or planning trips to places that are hotter. Santiago is hot. Really hot.

And that’s all for now, I suppose. More later and backdated.